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Wanderings – The ever changing but not changing Christmas

December 20, 2023 Phillip Blancher

I heard once that the older you get, the faster time passes. It really has felt like that this year. The year has flown past, or at least it feels like it has. Even now […]

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Adventures in home repair: The paint edition

December 13, 2023 Phillip Blancher

I haven’t felt this foolish in many years. Call it a slip of the grey matter; a symptom of being on the downward slope of my 40s; or a simple error. To paraphrase a hapless […]

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Wanderings – Google deal for news just the first step

December 6, 2023 Phillip Blancher

After months of negotiations it was announced last week that the Canadian government and Google had reached an agreement to have the online search engine giant pay towards the creation of Canadian News. This deal […]

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Wanderings – Is the grass always greener?

November 29, 2023 Phillip Blancher

A few years ago, my wife and I began watching a UK property show called Escape to the Country. The show’s host helps a potential home owner move to a rural spot in the United […]

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Wanderings – Cashing in on nostalgia

November 22, 2023 Phillip Blancher

Not long after our second oldest child was born, I decided to rid myself of this trunk of old toys. Most of it was Transformers from the 1980s. I had a number of these robots-in-disguise. […]

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Wanderings – Art and Artificial Intelligence, Let It Be

November 15, 2023 Phillip Blancher

Growing up, my musical influences were diverse. The 80s and 90s were filled with a variety of one-hit-wonder groups and top-charting radio groups. I listened to everything but one of the most influential was The […]

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Wanderings – Time to end time changes once and for all

November 8, 2023 Phillip Blancher

I loathe the semi-annual time change that we are subjected to. Loathe is too kind of a word, maybe despise is a better word. Or the two words together – loathe and despise – that […]

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Wanderings – An issue you can bet will not go away

November 1, 2023 Phillip Blancher

Sports betting has been legal in one form or another in Ontario for over 30 years. Over the years, it has expanded as legislation removed more and more restrictions on betting. The flood gates have […]

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Wanderings – The freedom to be who you are, notwithstanding

October 25, 2023 Phillip Blancher

We live in a country that espouses freedom of individuals to be who they are. It is written into the fabric of our constitution. It is a fundamental right that is ingrained into the Charter […]

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Wanderings – The good and bad of cutting corners

October 18, 2023 Phillip Blancher

This past weekend I had to work on a small home renovation project. I was up against a deadline and this work had to get done to fix my error in cutting a corner. Last […]

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